MI5

The UK government has announced the creation of a new security agency, the National Protective Security Authority (NPSA), to help organisations defend themselves against potential national security threats, including state-backed…

UK security service MI5 unlawfully gathered and retained millions of people’s private data, Britain’s most secret court has ruled in a landmark case on mass surveillance. Human rights organisations Liberty and Privacy International…

Emails published by Russian hackers and systematically analysed by Computer Weekly reveal that in January 2020 the former “C” (chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6) Richard Dearlove linked up with hard-Brexit campaigners and…

The UK should increase visas for seasonal workers as part of a drive to cultivate as much food as possible domestically, a former chief of MI5 has said.Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, who led the domestic intelligence service from…

Warrants for bulk surveillance of UK citizens have for more than a decade been obtained illegally and should be quashed, a tribunal has heard.Human rights organisations Liberty and Privacy International are seeking through a joint…

The Home Office has unlawfully allowed MI5 to gather vast amounts of the public’s data by wrongly approving bulk surveillance warrants, Britain’s most secret court heard on 25 July 2022. The human right’s groups Liberty and Privacy…

Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, and Chris Wray, director of the US’s FBI, have warned of the growing threat posed by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to UK and US interests, in an unprecedented joint address in London.…

There was “no legal justification” for the information gathering and sharing practices of undercover police officers during the 1970s, which became more extensive and intrusive as the decade went on, a public inquiry into the police…

Issued on: 15/01/2022 - 17:23 She has rubbed shoulders with Britain’s political elite – including former prime ministers Theresa May and David Cameron, former Labour leader Jeremy…

British MPs have been warned by MI5 that a Chinese agent has been “engaged in political interference activities” in parliament for the Chinese Communist party, including donating more than £420,000 to one Labour member.Christine…